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Lotus Petal Discussion

2 days ago

Will361405 Not every deck would run Chrome Mox, in the same way that not every Legacy deck runs
Lotus Petal
or
Chrome Mox
or
Mox Diamond
or
Dark Ritual
. All of those are legal but no fair deck plays them. Card disadvantage for acceleration isn't always worth it. Similarly not many decks play
Gitaxian Probe
. Not every modern deck played it when before it was banned. Why would they play it now? Every deck does play 4
Mental Misstep
, except those that play
Chalice of the Void
. But Misstep is extremely good for keeping all the broken unfair stuff in check. It requires the degenerate decks to have some level of resilience.

Yeah the current modern meta dies. This is a different format, so of course the tiered modern decks aren't viable. But screw the current modern meta. Screw humans, screw spirits, and screw Phoenix.

Elves is a very good deck in MNBL. Glimpse and Skullclamp are great cards. Except that they die to
Mental Misstep
. And it's a creature deck, so it's extremely vulnerable to
Terminus
(recall that miracles has a lot of toys on the ban list). And Elves is very bad at interacting, so the faster combo decks can also beat it. My point is that the meta wouldn't be unbalanced and busted. All MNBL that has been played shows that it's actually a really healthy and fair format.

Lotus Petal occurrence in decks from the last year

Legacy:

Commander / EDH:

All decks: 0.07%

Red: 0.09%

Blue: 0.11%

Black: 0.08%

Green: 0.04%

White: 0.05%

U/R (Izzet): 0.15%

Golgari: 0.09%

Rakdos: 0.05%

W/U/B (Esper): 0.2%

U/B/R (Grixis): 0.18%

RUG (Temur): 0.17%

BUG (Sultai): 0.26%

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